Vox Hunt: Deserves To Be Heard
Audio: Share something extremely rare that deserves to be heard.
Submitted by deusdiabolus.
Recorded in 1976 at Freeway Records in Oakland, Soft Touch had a later sound than Dawn and Sunset with pre-disco electronic instrumentation. Taken from the only single released by Soft Touch, "Plenty Action" is, according to band member Vernon Roberts, "A message to the man to leave those women alone! If they don't want it then don't bother them." Soft Touch were an all-vocal group made up of Vernon Roberts, William Lockett, Larry Beachamp, and Jim Brown. Early on in their career the members of Soft Touch played with the Black Panthers prior to the Lumpen becoming the Panthers main band.
The instrumental backing group was put together especially for this session by the song writer Philip Hunt. Despite delivering this killer piece of sly funk Soft Touch disbanded one year later before any more recordings were made. "Family priorities and better jobs came our way," explains Roberts, "but we all stayed in touch."
